Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others..

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert..

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken..

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory..

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government..

Religion is civilization, the highest..

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness..

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being..

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly..

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, an….

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency..

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter..

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning..

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor..

We cannot learn men from books..

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?.

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written….

This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of ….

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget..

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon..

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error..