Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.