No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

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

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.