An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.