The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.