There is no education like adversity.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.