Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?

Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

Our memories are independent of our wills.