Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

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

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

In politics experiments means revolutions.