As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.