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

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

Money is economic power.

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.

The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.