Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.

The search of the Holy Grail or the voyage towards a new continent never enlisted so much energy and so much faith as does this pursuit of youth by old age. It is a race not of the fleet but of the most credulous.

Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.

The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.