We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind..

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic..

History without politics descends to mere Literature..

No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowe….

A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden pr….

History is the school of statesmanship..

It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at rel….

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical….

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting..

He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an….