It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.

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.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

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.