To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident for a moment may almost destroy it.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.

If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.