At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.
The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.