The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
His Christianity was muscular.
Justice is truth in action.
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
Little things affect little minds.
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.