Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

We are superior to the joy we experience.

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.