In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.