For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

Rest is for the dead.