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.

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.

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.

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

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?