The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.