I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

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