It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

A sharp spear needs no polish.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

For the first 30years of life, you keep learning. The rest of your life you keep unlearning what you had learnt

It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst

I love all things Christmas.

You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns.

While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.