Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

You See, really and truly, apart from things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking, and so on), the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.