"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming …"

"They stand now on the threshold of public life. They are in the leash, but in a moment they will be slipped. What wil…"

"The world is governed by very different personages to what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."

"Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness."

"No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable numbe…"

"A government of statesmen or of clerks? Of Humbug or Humdrum?"

"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for Antiqu…"

"Hush!' said Mr. Tadpole. 'The time has gone by for Tory governments; what the country requires is a sound Conservativ…"

"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the e…"

"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret."