To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.