One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

A precedent embalms a principle.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

Information upon points of practical politics.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.