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

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.