Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.
Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.
The finest wits have their sediment.
The true ship is the ship builder.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.