She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

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.

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

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

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.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.