Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Life is a school of probability.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.