No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.