The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

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

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while its efficient part, at least when in great and critical action, is decidedly simple and modern.