News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Be thine own privy counsellor.

I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

A canter is the cure for all evil.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.