We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

We moralize among ruins.

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.