Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

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

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

There is no gambling like politics.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.