Finality is not the language of politics.

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.