I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.