The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.