The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
“It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.”
“Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”