Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

England does not love coalitions.

The expected always happens

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