I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again

The marketplace is democratic.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.