The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.