Man is more powerful than matter.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

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

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

There is no gambling like politics.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.