I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.