You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

Turtle makes all men equal.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.