I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.