Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Some people are born very far from home.