A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Every class is unfit to govern.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own and to defend them for the love of justice and charity more than as a claim of right, has been the soul of what is great and good in the progress of the last two hundred years.