“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.