Do let us try to give a national, not a class tone to English…

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

It is not for the candidates, but for the temper shown by the constituencies, that one may grieve, if there be matter for grief in the unmistakable proof which the elections are furnishing, that people do not recognise the necessity of …

The extreme advanced party is likely for the future to have on its side a great portion of the most highly cultivated intellect in the nation, and the contest will lie between brains and numbers on the one side, and wealth, rank, vested …

I shall not flinch if they decapitate or flagellate all the bishops and curés in Paris.

The new problem for statesmen will be not how the Queen's Government may be carried on, but how the National Will may be most promptly executed.

Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man.