Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.