Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

A man's fate is his own temper.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.