It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.