An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

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.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

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.