“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.”

“Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation”

“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.”

“Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.”

“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”

“Political life must be taken as you find it.”

“Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”