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 man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

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

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

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