War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

The business of everybody is the business of nobody.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

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

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.