» Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
» Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
» Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
» There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
» Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
» The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
» Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
» Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
» A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
» ''Frank and explicit'' -- that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.