The Greatest Mistake Is Trying To Be

Efficiency In An Assembly Requires A Solid Mass Of Steady Votes; And These Are Collected By A Deferential Attachment To Particular Men, Or By A Belief In The Principles That Those Men Represent, And They Are Maintained By Fear Of Those Men - By The Fear That If You Vote Against Them, You May Soon Yourself Have No Vote At All.

Life Is Not A Set Campaign, But An Irregular Work, And The Main Forces In It Are Not Overt Resolutions, But Latent And Half-involuntary Promptings.

One Cannot Make Men Good By Act Of Parliament.

Capital Must Be Propelled By Self-interest; It Cannot Be Enticed By Benevolence.

When Great Questions End, Little Parties Begin.