There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.