Amusement to an observing mind is study.
There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.
There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.
In politics experiments means revolutions.
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.
Religion is civilization, the highest.
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.
Every moment is travel - if understood.
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.
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