The constitution of England is not a paper constitution. It is an aggregate of institutions, many of them founded merely upon prescription, some of them fortified by muniments, but all of them the fruit and experience of an ancient and illustrious people.

I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

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

He who gains time gains everything.

An obedient wife commands her husband.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.