The most terrible of all things is terror.

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

Public opinion is a second conscience.