An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

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

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.