The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.