The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

A precedent embalms a principle.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

I have begun several times many things, and I have often succeeded at last.

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

The essence of education is the education of the body.