There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.