Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.