When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
Principle is a passion for truth.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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.
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.
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.
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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.
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.
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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 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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