The shot heard round the world.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.