Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.