A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.