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.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Money is economic power.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while its efficient part, at least when in great and critical action, is decidedly simple and modern.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.