What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.
When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
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