You have proved it is a very moral habit.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

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.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.