I have not skill From such a sharp and waspish word as "No" To pluck the sting. - Henry Taylor

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

The pretext for indecisiveness is commonly mature deliberation; but in reality indecisive men occupy themselves less in deliberation than others; for to him who fears to decide, deliberation (which has a foretaste of that fear) soon becomes intolerably irksome, and the mind escapes from the anxiety of it into alien themes.

There are few things more important in the business of the state, than that the results of inquiry and research should be realised by those who have had the conduct of it.