No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

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!

There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.

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

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

Complete self-devotion is woman's part.