"I shall perhaps have a statue when I am gone." "Quite likely; and mobs will rendezvous in its shadow to march upon the royal palaces.

If I were coming back to Europe I should go in for something more interesting than furnishing brains for sickly kings." "I dare say! Very likely you would persuade them to proclaim democracy and brotherhood everywhere." "On the other hand, I should become king myself." "Don't be a fool, Mr.John Armitage.

Much as you have grieved me, I should hate to see you in a madhouse." "My faculties, poor as they are, were never clearer.

I repeat that if I were going to furnish the brains for an empire I should ride in the state carriage myself, and not be merely the driver on the box, who keeps the middle of the road and looks out for sharp corners.

Here is a plan ready to my hand.