The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

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

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Success is the child of audacity.