When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.