We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

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

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

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.