Let The Children Have Their Night Of

If You Cannot Read All Your Books, At Any Rate Handle Them, And, As It Were, Fondle Them. Let Them Fall Open Where They Will. Make A Voyage Of Discovery, Taking Soundings Of Uncharted Seas.

History With Its Flickering Lamp Stumbles Along The Trail Of The Past, Trying To Reconstruct Its Scenes, To Revive Its Echoes, And Kindle With Pale Gleams The Passion Of Former Days. What Is The Worth Of All This? The Only Guide To A Man Is His Conscience; The Only Shield To His Memory Is The Rectitude And Sincerity Of His Actions. It Is Very Imprudent To Walk Through Life Without This Shield, Because We Are So Often Mocked By The Failure Of Our Hopes And The Upsetting Of Our Calculations; But With This Shield, However The Fates May Play, We March Always In The Ranks Of Honor.

History Will Be Kind To Me For I Intend To Write It.

I Have Never Accepted What Many People Have Kindly Said - Namely That I Inspired The Nation. Their Will Was Resolute And Remorseless, And As It Proved, Unconquerable. It Fell To Me To Express It.

Men Occasionally Stumble Over The Truth, But Most Of Them Pick Themselves Up And Hurry Off As If Nothing Had Happened.