The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.