I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
Travel teaches toleration.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.