[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount MelbourneNobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount MelbourneThat is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount MelbourneThe whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne