“To be capable of respect is, in these days, almost as rare as to be worthy of it.”

“Virtuous, worthy, wise and capable people are chosen as leaders.”

“One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.”

“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”

“When it comes to the desire for liberty and justice, there is no clash of civilizations. People everywhere are capable of freedom, and worthy of freedom.”

“Any individual who is sincerely searching for God, on land or in the sea is also worthy of respect.”

“Respect was mingled with surprise,
And the stern joy which warriors feel
In foeman worthy of their steel.”

“He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.”

“No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day.”

“The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.”