Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.