We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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.
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.
The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.