Health is the vital principle of bliss.
I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
Ingratitude is treason to mankind.
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
