I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.
Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.
Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.
A person's fate is their own temper.