...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

What does it matter, all is grace.

But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.