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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century