A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

Information upon points of practical politics.