Somerset quotes

We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the Earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.

- F(rederick) E(dwin) Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
  Contemporary Personalities,'Marquess Curzon'.

   A Chancery Lane young man, A Somerset House young man, Avery delectable, highly respectable, Threepenny-bus young man!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
Bunthorne and Grosvenor's duet, Patience, act 2.