He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house,'

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but on…

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! - I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.