Revolutions go not backward.
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
My life is a struggle.
Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon
One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
That old law about an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do what is right.
Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Give, even if you only have little.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
