The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.