Nations, as well as individuals, are mortal. [ Oliver B. Seward ]

Individuals, not stations, ornament society. [ William Ewart Gladstone ]

Individuals may perish; but truth is eternal. [ Joseph Gerrald ]

Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth. [ Landor ]

The personal pronoun I should be the coat of arms of some individuals. [ Rivarol ]

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. [ Juvenal ]

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

It is noble and so regarded both among nations and individuals to keep faith in adversity. [ Silius Italicus ]

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations. [ Berthold Auerbach ]

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo, - babbling gossips of the air. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Nations, like individuals, are powerful in the degree that they command the sympathies of their neighbors. [ Bovee ]

Individuals may deceive and be deceived; no one has deceived every one, and every one has deceived no one. [ Bonhours ]

Every great example of punishment has in it some tincture of injustice, but the wrong to individuals is compensated by the promotion of the public good. [ Tac ]

Twenty people can gain money for one who can use it; and the vital question for individuals and for nations, is never how much do they make, but to what purpose do they spend. [ John Ruskin ]

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other. [ Colton ]

Enthusiasm is an evil much less to be dreaded than superstition. Superstition is the disease of nations; enthusiasm that of individuals: the former grows inveterate by time: the latter is cured by it. [ Robert Hall ]

Grief or misfortune seems to be indispensable to the development of intelligence, energy, and virtue. The proofs to which the people are submitted, as with individuals, are necessary then to draw them from their lethargy, to disclose their character. [ Fearon ]

Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor. [ Macaulay ]

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. [ James A. Garfield ]

Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing, - the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations. [ Samuel Smiles ]

It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be obtained or retained. [ Beaconsfield ]

Individuals possessing moderate sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth. [ George Combe ]