If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.