A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce. [It., Il y en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses differentes, et une seule sauce.]

Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep.

Men of England! who inherit Rights that cost your sires their blood.

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.