There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.