"The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could."

"Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same."

"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique."

"Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better."

"Common sense is as rare as genius."

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

"I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other."

"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin."

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."

"He will live ill who does not know how to die well."

"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other."