The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.