It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.