Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.