Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

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

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.