The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any..

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion..

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party governm….

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics..

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession..

London; a nation, not a city..

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps..

There is no diplomacy like silence..

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man..

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety..

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency..

Little things affect little minds..

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand..

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companio….

Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; whil….

The English nation is never so great as in adversity..

There is no education like adversity..

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfec….

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye..

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and t….

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 know….