You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.