A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.
Money is economic power.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.