The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.
Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.
The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.
What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.
One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.
Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.
I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.
Here’s to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.