I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.