My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

He, who, in view of its inconsistencies, says of human nature the same that, in view of its contrasts, is said of the divine nature, that it is past finding out, thereby evinces a better appreciation of it than he who, by always representing it in a clear light, leaves it to be inferred that he clearly knows all about it.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.