The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.