Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
When great questions end, little parties begin.
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.