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

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

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?

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.