O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.
Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.
Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.
Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.
There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."
'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'
We cannot learn men from books.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.
The originality of a subject is in its treatment.
Party is organized opinion.
The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!
What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
It is the lot of man to suffer.
Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.
Departure should be sudden.
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