You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.