Nothing is permanent but change.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.