Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.