Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.