Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.

I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.