Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put it more forcibly than the adversary could put it for himself, and take account not only of what the adversary says, but also the best he MIGHT say, if only he had chanced to think it.

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings.