For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.

Nature is God's Old Testament.