There is no education like adversity.
Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
In politics, nothing is contemptible.
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.