If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.