My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.