Change is constant in a progressive country.
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.
There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.