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.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.