No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

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

I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!