The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

A precedent embalms a principle.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

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

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.