Silence is the mother of truth.

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

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Meditation is culture.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.