There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.
When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten
To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.
How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.