The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.
Small things affects small minds.
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
London; a nation, not a city.
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.