Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.