Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.