Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

All great peoples are conservative.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

I want to meet my God awake.