In My Youth I Hoped

All The Inducements Of Early Society Tend To Foster Immediate Action; All Its Penalties Fall On The Man Who Pauses; The Traditional Wisdom Of Those Times Was Never Weary Of Inculcating That "delays Are Dangerous," And That The Sluggish Man The Man "who Roasteth Not That Which He Took In Hunting" Will Not Prosper On The Earth, And Indeed Will Very Soon Perish Out Of It. And In Consequence An Inability To Stay Quiet, An Irritable Desire To Act Directly, Is One Of The Most Conspicuous Failings Of Mankind.

No Great Work Has Ever Been Produced Except After A Long Interval Of Still And Musing Meditation.

A Severe Though Not Unfriendly Critic Of Our Institutions Said That The Cure For Admiring The House Of Lords Was To Go And Look At It.

One Of The Greatest Pains To Human Nature Is The Pain Of A New Idea.

An Ambassador Is Not Simply An Agent; He Is Also A Spectacle.