I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

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.

London is a modern Babylon.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.