No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.