Great countries are those that produce great people.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.