The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

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

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.