Little things affect little minds.

It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

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.

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

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.