Poverty Is An Anomaly To Rich People;

What Impresses Men Is Not Mind, But The Result Of Mind.

What We Opprobriously Call Stupidity, Though Not An Enlivening Quality In Common Society, Is Nature's Favorite Resource For Preserving Steadiness Of Conduct And Consistency Of Opinion.

A Political Country Is Like An American Forest; You Have Only To Cut Down The Old Trees, And Immediately New Trees Come Up To Replace Them.

Whatever Expenditure Is Sanctioned - Even When It Is Sanctioned Against The Ministry's Wish - The Ministry Must Find The Money. Accordingly, They Have The Strongest Motive To Oppose Extra Outlay. The Ministry Is (so To Speak) The Breadwinner Of The Political Family, And Has To Meet The Cost Of Philanthropy And Glory; Just As The Head Of A Family Has To Pay For The Charities Of His Wife And The Toilette Of His Daughters.

The Most Intellectual Of Men Are Moved Quite As Much By The Circumstances Which They Are Used To As By Their Own Will. The Active Voluntary Part Of A Man Is Very Small, And If It Were Not Economized By A Sleepy Kind Of Habit, Its Results Would Be Null.