Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.