Change is constant in a progressive country.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.