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.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.