Benjamin Disraeli: “It produces and represents as they did whatever is most beautiful in the spirit of man and often expresses what is most…”

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

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…

A murder, perpetrated at noonday, in the sight of many persons, cannot be proved in a court of justice.

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