A precedent embalms a principle.

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

Books are the curse of the human race.

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.