No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!