The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

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

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

He who gains time gains everything.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.