To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

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

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

Never complain and never explain.

England does not love coalitions.

Her Majesty is not a subject.