The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.