London is a modern Babylon.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Books are the curse of the human race.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.