Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
Money is economic power.
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.