Don't go." One unwavering aim has ever characterized successful men.
"Daniel Webster," said Sydney Smith, "struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers." As Adams suggests, Lord Brougham, like Canning, had too many talents; and, though as a lawyer he gained the most splendid prize of his profession, the Lord Chancellorship of England, and merited the applause of scientific men for his investigations in science, yet his life on the whole was a failure.

He was "everything by turns and nothing long." With all his magnificent abilities he left no permanent mark on history or literature, and actually outlived his own fame.
Miss Martineau says, "Lord Brougham was at his chateau at Cannes when the daguerreotype process first came into vogue.

An artist undertook to take a view of the chateau with a group of guests on the balcony.
His Lordship was, asked to keep perfectly still for five seconds, and he promised that he would not stir, but alas,--he moved.

The consequence was that there was a blur where Lord Brougham should have been.
"There is something," continued Miss Martineau, "very typical in this.
In the picture of our century, as taken from the life by history, this very man should have been the central figure.

But, owing to his want of steadfastness, there will be forever a blur where Lord Brougham should have been.