I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

I don't want to be married. I don't know - it sounds crazy, but in my mind, it's all connected. You get married, you have kids, you grow old, then you die. Somehow, it seems to me, if you didn't get married, you wouldn't die.