Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob are influenced; it is they who the inspectors cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second hand carriages; no one cares for them or asks about them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.