As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Change is constant in a progressive country.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.