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

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.

Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.