He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!