"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment"
"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded"
"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best"
"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world"
"What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens"
"What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth"
"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets"
"We moralize among ruins"
"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius"
"Despair is the conclusion of fools"
"Damn your principles! Stick to your party"
"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke"
"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future"
"William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect"
