The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
The king is the man who can.
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.