Stories happen to those who tell them.

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

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.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.