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.

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

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.

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.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

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.