It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

People who know how to act are never preachers.