If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.