Life's objective is life itself.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.