But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

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

You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.

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

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.