Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

London; a nation, not a city.

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.