| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ambition | 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. |
| Bravery | How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. |
| Churches | A beggarly people, A church and no steeple. |
| Conversation | 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. |
| Cruelty | The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. |
| Democracy | Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. |
| Eating | Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons. |
| Humanity | 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. |
| Imagination | His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. |
| Imagination | The human race is governed by its imagination. |
| Literature | . . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. |
| Morality | We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. |
| Navy | There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. |
| Oratory | The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. |
| Patriotism | And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods? |
| Praise | The sweeter sound of woman's praise. |
| Proverbs | Everybody's business is nobody's business. |
| Public Trust | The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good. |
| Ruin | 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. |
| Service | "Sidney Godophin," said Charles , "is never in the way and never out of the way." |
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