I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.
Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.
Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.
Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.
The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.
Everything in this world depends upon will.
To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.
A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.
Tobacco is the tomb of love.
In politics experiments means revolutions.
Her Majesty is not a subject.
What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
London; a nation, not a city.
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.
Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.