The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.
Great men exist that there might be greater men.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.