Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

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 whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

When great questions end, little parties begin.