A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.