I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

We moralize among ruins.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

With words we govern men.

There is no education like adversity.