What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
A wise man travels to discover himself.
His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.