Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

A great unrecognized incapacity. [Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.]

Politics ruins the character.

You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.