Truth

I have nothing to say about myself, except that I am doing my best, with the feeling that it will never be enough.

Success is certain when all free peoples are in array against the last convulsions of savagery.

In so vast a drama, my dear friend, my personality does not count.

Whether I was right or wrong at this time or that interests me no longer, since it all belongs to the past.

I have kept nothing of what I have said or written.

What in the name of God is this?

It is plain sense.

We mislike no bishops save that they stand by a tyrannous church.

Here are ten lines of the bitterest damnation that ever came from the mind of treason.

Blood is upon us again, blood spilled for a perfidious king.

All arguments are ended.

How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man!

There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution - a Constitution that is in actual work and power.

The object is in constant change.

The most curious point about the Cabinet is that so very little is known about it.

This is why we ought not to do evil that good may come; for at any rate this great evil has come, that we have done evil and are made wicked thereby.

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

But I cannot help doing this great wrong toward Man, that I make myself credulous.

It is we who create value, and our desires which confer value.

It is for us to determine the good life, not for Nature - not even for Nature personified as God.