He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

Silence is the mother of truth.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.