In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

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