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.

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.