Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.