"The plain rule is to do nothing..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.”

“The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.”

“There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.”

“Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.”

“All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.”

“I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.”

“Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.”

“Secrecy destroys accountability.”

“There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.”