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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

A government of laws, and not of men.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.