Duty cannot exist without faith

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.