As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

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.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.