We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.