The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.