The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

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.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.