Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while its efficient part, at least when in great and critical action, is decidedly simple and modern.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.