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.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

Small things affects small minds.

He who gains time gains everything.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

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.