Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Duty cannot exist without faith
Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.
I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”
With words we govern men.
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
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