People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.