What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.