Education has for its object the formation of character.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.

Live well. It is the greatest revenge.

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear.