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.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

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

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.