It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.