Success?
In few years, thou wilt be dead and dark,--all cold, eyeless, deaf; no blaze of bonfires, ding-dong of bells or leading-articles visible or audible to thee again at all forever: What kind of success is that!-- It is true all goes by approximation in this world; with any not insupportable approximation we must be patient.

There is a noble Conservatism as well as an ignoble.

Would to Heaven, for the sake of Conservatism itself, the noble alone were left, and the ignoble, by some kind severe hand, were ruthlessly lopped away, forbidden ever more to skew itself! For it is the right and noble alone that will have victory in this struggle; the rest is wholly an obstruction, a postponement and fearful imperilment of the victory.

Towards an eternal centre of right and nobleness, and of that only, is all this confusion tending.

We already know whither it is all tending; what will have victory, what will have none! The Heaviest will reach the centre.