Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.