Familiar Quotations

For human nature is surely made arrogant by consideration as it is awed by firmness.

Great is the glory of the woman who occasions the least talk among men, whether of praise or of blame.

But the braves are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Our constitution is named a democracy, because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many. But our laws secure equal justice for all in their private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honors talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence alone. And as we give free play to all in our public life, so we carry the same spirit into our daily relations with one another…

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.