The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

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.