Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

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.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

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