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.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

We cannot learn men from books.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.