Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.