Posterity Weaves No Garlands For

We Are Citizens Of An Age, As Well As Of A State; And If It Is Held To Be Unseemly, Or Even Inadmissible, For A Man To Cut Himself Off From The Customs And Manners Of The Circle In Which He Lives, Why Should It Be Less Of A Duty, In The Choice Of His Activity, To Submit His Decision To The Needs And The Taste Of His Century?

I Feel That I Am A Man Of Destiny.

He Cannot Complain Of A Hard Sentence, Who Is Made Master Of His Own Fate.

I Know That We Often Tremble At An Empty Terror; Yet The False Fancy Brings A Real Misery.

Cowards Have Done Good And Kind Actions, But A Coward Never Pardoned.