If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
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.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
Small things affects small minds.
In politics, nothing is contemptible.