Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

London is a roost for every bird.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.