No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
It must be a peace without victory
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.
They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.