All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

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.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

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