He is most powerful who governs himself.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

You roll my log, and I will roll yours.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.