In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.