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.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

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

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

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

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

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.