Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.