What men have seen they know. . . .

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Brave hearts do not back down back off.