Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.