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A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

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I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.

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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

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I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

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