I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Everybody likes a compliment.