A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few; Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.