Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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.

Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.