There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Be thine own privy counsellor.

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.