Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.