I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.