I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.