A man's fate is his own temper.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

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

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

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

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.