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.

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

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

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

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.