A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.
Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
There are no office hours for leaders.
Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.