A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

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

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.