England does not love coalitions.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

A man's fate is his own temper.