Action
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Agreement
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Bores and Boredom
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Change
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Circumstance
Man is more powerful than matter.
Courage
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Desperation
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Duty
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Education
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Facts
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Frankness
Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Greatness
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
Heroes and Heroism
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Inequality
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Learning
A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Love
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Marriage
It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Nations
Great countries are those that produce great people.
Reason
It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
Speakers and Speaking
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
Success
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Temperament
A person's fate is their own temper.
Tradition
A precedent embalms a principle.
Truth
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Worry
Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Youth
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
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