Man Is To Be Trained Chiefly By

You Cannot Fight Against Future. Time Is On Its Side.

Books Are Delightful Society. If You Go Into A Room And Find It Full Of Books - Even Without Taking Them From The Shelves They Seem To Speak To You, To Bid You Welcome.

I Am Certain, From Experience, Of The Immense Advantage Of Strict Account-keeping In Early Life. It Is Just Like Learning The Grammar Then, Which When Once Learned Need Not Be Referred To Afterwards.

There Should Be A Sympathy With Freedom, A Desire To Give It Scope, Founded Not Upon Visionary Ideas, But Upon The Long Experience Of Many Generations Within The Shores Of This Happy Isle, That In Freedom You Lay The Firmest Foundations Both Of Loyalty And Order.

Letter To The Committee In Charge Of The Celebration Of The Centennial Of The American Constitution. I Have Always Regarded That Constitution As The Most Remarkable Work Known To Me In Modern Times To Have Been Produced By The Human Intellect, At A Single Stroke (so To Speak), In Its Application To Political Affairs.