To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

There is moderation even in excess.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.