We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.