Man is only great when he acts from passion.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.