A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.