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

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

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

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

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.