" There is the great Senator who declares to himself that personally he will have neither friend nor foe. There is his country before him and its welfare. Within his bosom is the fire of patriotism, and within his mind the examples of all past time. He knows that he can be just, he teaches himself to be eloquent, and he strives to be wise. But he will not bend; — and at last, in some great solitude, though closely surrounded by those whose love he had neglected to acquire, — he breaks his heart. "

― Anthony Trollope , Complete Works of Anthony Trollope