If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

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

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.