"Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic."

"The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels."

"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."

"The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity."

"The fool wonders, the wise man asks."

"London is a roost for every bird."

"Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay."

"There can be economy only where there is efficiency."

"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."

"The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools."

"Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves."

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man."

"Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman."

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."

"Little things affect little minds."

"Departure should be sudden."

"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

"A precedent embalms a principle."

"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men."

"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it."

"To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder."

"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."

"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity."

"Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing."

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."

"The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern."

"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."

"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."

"Where knowledge ends, religion begins."

"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness."

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

"I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension."

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

"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."

"A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity."

"Every woman should marry - and no man."

"Travel teaches toleration."

"A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic."

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

"He has not a single redeeming defect."

"War is never a solution; it is an aggravation."

"Despair is the conclusion of fools."

"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."

"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."

"The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!"

"Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools."

"There is no education like adversity."

"Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense."