I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

Suicide is not a remedy

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.