No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it.

Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.

I misdirect the audience, so they have no idea where they are or who they're listening to.

The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.

We can’t change history, but we can create the future.

We put on certain music when we're going to a party, right? You have that playlist of songs that you listen to before you get pumped up to go out.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

I would like it if people would think that beyond Newman, there's a spirit that takes action, a heart, and a talent that doesn't come from my blue eyes.

Solitude is the profoundest fact