History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.