We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.

A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.