Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

A precedent embalms a principle.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

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

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.