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

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.