The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.