To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

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

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Life is a school of probability.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

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

What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.