Travel teaches toleration.

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.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

Never take anything for granted.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.