My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Revolutions never go backwards.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.