There is no gambling like politics.

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.

Beauty can inspire miracles.

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.

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.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.