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

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

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

The police are the public and the public are the police.

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.

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

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.