Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Colors speak all languages.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.