I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.