“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.”

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.