Without tact you can learn nothing.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Beauty can inspire miracles.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.