From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.