Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

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.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

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.

The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.