Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.