The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

There is no gambling like politics.

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

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

A person's fate is their own temper.