A community is like the ones who govern it.
All great men are partially inspired.
Hatred is a settled anger.
I hate all children of precocious talent.
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.
The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?