Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

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

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

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

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob are influenced; it is they who the inspectors cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second hand carriages; no one cares for them or asks about them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.