A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.