Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

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.

The marketplace is democratic.

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.

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.

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