You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.