What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

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.