To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.