I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.