Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.

It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress.

I always enjoy animal acts.

The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.