The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.
We moralize among ruins.
We are taught words, not ideas.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.