Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

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

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

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.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

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