When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.

Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

I am the very model of a modern major general

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.