What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.