Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.