But on the whole it is wise in human affairs, and in the government of men, to separate pomp from power.

One mark of a great man is the power of making lasting impressions upon people he meets.

I submit respectfully to the House as a general principle that our responsibility in this matter is directly proportionate to our power. Where there is great power there is great responsibility, where there is less power there is less responsibility, and where there is no power there can, I think, be no responsibility.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.