Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.