The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.