Government Rules The Present. Literature

Character Is Tested By True Sentiments More Than By Conduct. A Man Is Seldom Better Than His Word.

History Provides Neither Compensation For Suffering Nor Penalties For Wrong.

Feudalism Made Land The Measure And The Master Of All Things.

Neither An Enlightened Philosophy, Nor All The Political Wisdom Of Rome, Nor Even The Faith And Virtue Of The Christians Availed Against The Incorrigible Tradition Of Antiquity. Something Was Wanted, Beyond All The Gifts Of Reflection And Experience - A Faculty Of Self Government And Self Control, Developed Like Its Language In The Fibre Of A Nation, And Growing With Its Growth.

Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men.