The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.

Be thine own privy counsellor.

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

He who gains time gains everything.