In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.