When great questions end, little parties begin.

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.

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

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

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