Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?