The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

A person's fate is their own temper.