Never complain and never explain.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

There is no gambling like politics.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.