“It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.”

“Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.”

“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”

“As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.”

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

“Ignorance never settles a question.”

“I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.”