Books are the curse of the human race.

Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.