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

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

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

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.