Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

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.