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

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.