He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.

There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Idleness induces caprice.

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.