What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.
If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.
England does not love coalitions.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.