"No longer from Parliament with an easy mind, so we must be satisfied."

"The longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, the feeble and the powerful, the great…"

"I shall speak as well as I can for usefulness, but not for fame."

"I should very much like to be a country gentleman. I would not have the best horses, or dogs, or farms, in the county…"

"No man has a surplus of power: meaning by power— time, talents, money, influence."

"I am no politician."

"How wonderful are the ways of the Lord (God); how sweet his mercies, how terrible his judgements!"

"In this world I shall never be anything but a mere moderate– behind the foremost, and before the last."

"Le désir de s'enrichir est leur passion dominante, et à vrai dire leur seule passion."

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"