Departure should be sudden.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
I say that justice is truth in action.
No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
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.