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

It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.

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

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

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.