A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

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

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.