Who said “There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the…”?

“Nations, like men, have their infancy.”

“England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.”

“I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.”

“How can you govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?”

“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”

“The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.”

“Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.”

“It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.”

“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.”

“Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.”

“The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.”