I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

We change whether we like it or not.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

There is no true orator who is not a hero.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.