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.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

I have a great confidence in the revelations which holidays bring forth.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.