Whenever we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
