The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
An honor is not diminished for being shared.
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.