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.