There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.