Benjamin Disraeli: “But the happiness of man is not merely material.”

These outrages were never insurrectionary: they were not directed against existing authorities; they were stimulated by no public cause or clamour; it was the private individual who was attacked, and for a private reason.

It was for something deeper than this, higher and holier than even Moses could fulfil, that angels announced the Coming.

The mere division of the House between Free-traders and Protectionists had already ceased; there were breakers ahead, and it was not difficult from this night to perceive that the course of the government would not be so summary as they…

Nature had clothed this vehement spirit with a material form which was in perfect harmony with its noble and commanding character.