The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

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

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.