Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

The government has no propositions to make, but orders to give.

Anything can happen someday, even that an act conforming to honour and honesty can end up, at the end of the line, as a good political decision.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Washington wasn't born good. Only practice and habit made him so.