A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.