"The right hon. Gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal position, and he is himself a strict conservative of thei…"

"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable."

"Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us—something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows."

"I never deny; I never contradict; I sometimes forget."

"I believe that nothing in newspapers is ever true. And that is why they are so popular; the taste of the age being so decidedly for fiction."