The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Turtle makes all men equal.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.