A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.