I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.