Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Consider an enemy may become a friend.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.