You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.