I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.
'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'