“Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose”

“In all things we trace the irresistible influence of the individual.”

“Never explain. Never complain.”

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”

“Never apologize, never explain.”

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.”

“Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life”

“There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour”

“He who gains time gains everything.”

“Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.”

“Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.”

“It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.”

“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”

“Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation”

“What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.”

“The canter is a cure for every evil.”

“Little things affect little minds”

“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours”

“Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.”

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”

“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ”

“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”