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

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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.