He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.