If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

England does not love coalitions.

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.