Not a step can we take in any direction without perceiving the most extraordinary traces of design; and the skill everywhere conspicuous is calculate… - Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

The English Bar is in a very great degree tedious, and, to say the least of it, somewhat uncertain. I look forward with no small horror to five years' dull, unvaried drudgery, which must be undergone to obtain the privilege of drudging still harder, among a set of disagreeable people of brutal manners and confined talents.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

The corresponding Society, except about six members, consists of the most dispicable and brutal of mobs. Men whose ignorance and savage barbarity renders them fit only for being tools—indeed, they are the common day laborers about town. This party, perfectly distinct in its nature from the opposition, has done more to ruin its cause, than Pitt and his party ever could have foreseen.