Everything comes if a man will only wait.

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.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.