The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.