It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

London; a nation, not a city.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

Amusement to an observing mind is study.