The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Never take anything for granted.

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.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.