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.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.