Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

The frenzy of nations is the statesmanship of fate.

What is human is immortal!

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.