Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.