There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.