Who said “Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us,…”?

“People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, -- that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.”

“In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.”

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”

“You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.”

“A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.”

“Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.”

“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”

“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”

“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”

“The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”

“There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen.”