"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages."

"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."

"It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience."

"Youth has no age."

"What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth."

"It is a timeless truth that great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers."