He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Walking is man's best medicine.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.