Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.
"Sorry" only counts for that which it cannot alter.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.
The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
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