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

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.