Benjamin Disraeli: “But Babylon has vanished and Jerusalem remains, and what are the waters of Euphrates to the brook of Kedron!”

If, in deference to an anonymous mandate, he relinquished his holding, he and those who depended on him were outcasts and wanderers; if he retained or accepted it, his life might be the forfeit, but subsistence was secured; and in poor and…

But there is nothing in which the power of circumstances is more evident than in politics.

Lord George Bentinck lived to have the West-India interest and the shipping interest on their knees to him, to defend their perilled or to restore their ruined fortunes; and with characteristic generosity and proud consistency, he…

The immolators were preordained like the victim, and the holy race supplied both.