When a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire. - Benjamin Disraeli

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.