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. 689
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. 1.6K
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. 605
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. 1.47K
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. 1.95K
The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. 715
