Life is a school of probability.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

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

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.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

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.