You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.