Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.