The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.

The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.

Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.

No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

We created some pressure in other innings, but we just didn't cash in on them. At the end of the game, we got more than they did and that's all that counts.