Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Love is the piety of the affections.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

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.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Greatness is its own torment.