Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

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

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.