Benjamin Disraeli: “They are therefore indebted to them for much that regulates, much that charms, and much that solaces existence.”

He always took large views and had no prejudices about things, whatever he might indulge in as to persons.

Men are apt to believe that crime and coercion are inevitably associated.

It should not be forgotten that the most authentic and interesting histories are those which have been composed by actors in the transactions which they record.

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…