It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

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.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

A man's fate is his own temper.

The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.