Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.