I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

When a man is going to try and borrow money, it is wise to look prosperous

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

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

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.