Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.