Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.