We Are Frequently Understood The Least By

Wise Sayings Often Fall On Barren Ground, But A Kind Word Is Never Thrown Away.

It Is Quite Impossible To Understand The Character Of A Person From One Action, However Striking That Action May Be.

Those Who Are Successfully To Lead Their Fellow-men, Should Have Once Possessed The Nobler Feelings. We Have All Known Individuals Whose Magnanimity Was Not Likely To Be Troublesome On Any Occasion; But Then They Betrayed Their Own Interests By Unwisely Omitting The Consideration, That Such Feelings Might Exist In The Breasts Of Those Whom They Had To Guide And Govern: For They Themselves Cannot Even Remember The Time When In Their Eyes Justice Appeared Preferable To Expediency, The Happiness Of Others To Self-interest, Or The Welfare Of A State To The Advancement Of A Party.

There Is One Statesman Of The Present Day, Of Whom I Always Say That He Would Have Escaped Making The Blunders That He Has Made If He Had Only Ridden More In Buses.

War May Be The Game Of Kings, But, Like The Games At Ancient Rome, It Is Generally Exhibited To Please And Pacify The People.