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

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

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?

The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.

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

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

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!