Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.