No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense. - Thomas Carlyle

Again, and again, we say, the great, the creative and enduring is ever a secret to itself; only the small, the barren and transient is otherwise.

He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.

But leaving this, let us remark one thing which is very plain: That whatever be the uses and duties, real or supposed, of a Secretary in Parliament, his faculty to accomplish these is a point entirely unconnected with his ability to get elected into Parliament, and has no relation or proportion to it, and no concern with it whatever.