America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
We are nothing but by the law.
Adversity is the midwife of genius
Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.