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.

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.