You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.