We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
Amusement to an observing mind is study.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
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.
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.