... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

One should not run on a new road.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

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.

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

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

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