Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.