The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Great men never require experience.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.