There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Principle is a passion for truth.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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