“He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
