Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.