A canter is the cure for all evil.

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.