London is a modern Babylon.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.