It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.