“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”

“The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.”

“Alexander Caesar Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love and to this very day m...”

“Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.”

“Forethought we may have undoubtedly but not foresight.”

“France always has plenty men of talent but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.”

“Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.”

“Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and...”

“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical facts on which our religion is founded such as the ...”