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.

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

All is race - there is no other truth.

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