All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.