Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

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