No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.