No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.

Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.