The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

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.

Be thine own privy counsellor.