Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.