There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.