You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

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.

A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.