Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.