Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.