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

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

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

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

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.

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.