The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

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

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

As for our majority... one is enough.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.