London is a modern Babylon.

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.