To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

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.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but is an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while there exists equal justice to all and alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit