The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.

Imagination rules the world.