The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.