Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

We cannot learn men from books.