Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob are influenced; it is they who the inspectors cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second hand carriages; no one cares for them or asks about them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

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

What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.