Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

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

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.