Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.