One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.