Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Life is a school of probability.

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.