The purse strings tie us to our kind.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there is as little as possible to impede it, and when you thoroughly comprehend that, add to it in succession the separate effects of each of the incumbering and interfering agencies.

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

When great questions end, little parties begin.

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

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.