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

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

Nature is stronger than education.