Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want to borrow his money; while, among the less favored with fortune's gifts, the sincere friend is generally esteemed to be the individual who is ready to lend it.

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

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

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.