Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.

Lincoln's appeal to "the better angels of our nature" failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals bequeathed to the Union, cemented with blood, a moral heritage which, when drawn upon in times of stress and strife, is sure to find specific ways and means to surmount difficulties that may appear to be insurmountable.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.