Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.

The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.