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

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

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.