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

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

I believe absence is a great element of charm.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.