Fate laughs at probabilities.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.