If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

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

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.