But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

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

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

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.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.