Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.