Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.

It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.