Every moment is travel - if understood.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.