For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

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

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

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