Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

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

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.