"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."

"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."

"Wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"A leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."

"Courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that the richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors."