Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

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

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Travel teaches toleration.

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

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.