There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.