Amusement to an observing mind is study.

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.