The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.