The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.