A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
From Benjamin Disraeli
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
We moralize among ruins.
Great countries are those that produce great people.
The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
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