In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

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

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

One should not run on a new road.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

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.