There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.