Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

We moralize among ruins.