Travel teaches toleration.

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.