Friendship Is The Gift Of The Gods,

More Pernicious Nonsense Was Never Devised By Man Than Treaties Of Commerce.

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.

A Man's Fate Is His Own Temper.

The European Talks Of Progress Because By The Aid Of A Few Scientific Discoveries He Has Established A Society Which Has Mistaken Comfort For Civilisation.

Sir, Very Few People Reach Posterity. Who Amongst Us May Arrive At That Destination I Presume Not To Vaticinate. Posterity Is A Most Limited Assembly. Those Gentlemen Who Reach Posterity Are Not Much More Numerous Than The Planets.