Protection is not a principle but an expedient

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Difficulties melt away under tact.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.