Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.