The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.