The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

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

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.