It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

Gratitude is a species of justice.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.