"The Tories, because they are asses, can be induced by some outstanding personality, like Disraeli, to strike out boldly from time to time, which the Liberals are incapable of doing. But when no outsta…"

"There is no more potent antidote to the poison of an evil imagination than the free and healthy play of the mind upon the works of nature."

"An English revolution is at least a solemn sacrifice: a French revolution is an indecent massacre."

"Madam, I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New."

"We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results."