Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!

History is the invention of historians.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.