Everything in this world depends upon will.

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

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.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

All my successes have been built on my failures.