Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.

The French complain of everything, and always.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

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