When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

War never leaves where it found a nation.