The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

Ignorance never settles a question.

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!

There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

We cannot learn men from books.