Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

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

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.