A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Difficulties melt away under tact.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.