Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

All great peoples are conservative.

To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.