England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.