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He was utterly without ambition . He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.

She may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.

"Sidney Godophin," said Charles , "is never in the way and never out of the way."

A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.