We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

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.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.