A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fost….

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest….

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations..

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married..

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only q….