Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

I was struck all on a heap.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.