You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

There is no gambling like politics.

We cannot learn men from books.

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.