The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to 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.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.