Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Travel teaches toleration.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

Everything in this world depends upon will.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.