No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.