The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.