Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

My books are friends that never fail me.