I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

London; a nation, not a city.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.