Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.