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.

The essence of education is the education of the body.

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

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

England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.