Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

The great soul of this world is just.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.