The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.