The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

There is moderation even in excess.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.