The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.