The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

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

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

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.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'