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He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Silence is the mother of Truth.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Success is the child of audacity.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

A person's fate is their own temper.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Little things affect little minds.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.