If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it's not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude

The secret of success is constancy of purpose

No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.

Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy

Everyone likes flattery, and when you come to Royalty, you should lay it on with a thick trowel

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism

Despair is the conclusion of fools