We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

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.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

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

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.