One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.

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

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.