Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

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.