"There are no secrets of success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

"Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation."

"All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people, all legitimate government exists."

"I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man."

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."