If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.