"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets"
"We moralize among ruins"
"Little things affect little minds"
"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable"
"If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory"
"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief"
"I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist"
"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy"
"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure"
"The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven"
"Man is only great when he acts from passion"
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter"
"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions"
