Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.