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

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

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

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.