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

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

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

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?

Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.

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.

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