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

To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?