One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

England does not love coalitions.

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.