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

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

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.

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.

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

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.