The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.