What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

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

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.