All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

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

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

The French complain of everything, and always.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.