We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

The purse strings tie us to our kind.

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.