There is no diplomacy like silence.
There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.
In politics, nothing is contemptible.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.