Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.