The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Amusement to an observing mind is study.