what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.