Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.