I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.