politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.

Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!