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

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

The purse strings tie us to our kind.

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

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

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.