A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.