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.

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

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