Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.
The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.
There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.
A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.