Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.