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.

Meditation is culture.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

A person's fate is their own temper.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.