“England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.”

“The art of government is not to let me grow stale.”

“In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.”

“A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.”

“Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.”

“When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.”

“When we can identify a problem and face the problem with confidence and enthusiasm, the solution is on the way.”

“If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.”

“Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.”

“The chameleon Love can feed on the air”

“All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.”

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”

“If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.”