Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.