The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say, you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and, therefore, when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which I hope will keep it great.

Man is more powerful than matter.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

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

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.