There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

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.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.