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.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident for a moment may almost destroy it.

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

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

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