When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.