The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.