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

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.