Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

Never repeat old grievances.