England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.