London; a nation, not a city.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

A person's fate is their own temper.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.