There is no education like adversity.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.