Come what may, I have been blest.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.