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.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.