Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.

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