'What good will you get of going into that?
Parliamentary criticism, argument and botheration?
Leave well alone.

And even leave ill alone:--are you the tradesman to tinker leaky vessels in England?
You will not want for work.

Mind your pudding, and say little!' At home and abroad, that was the safe secret.

For, in Foreign Politics, his rule was analogous: 'Mind your own affairs.

You are an Island, you can do without Foreign Politics; Peace, keep Peace with everybody: what, in the Devil's name, have you to do with those dog-worryings over Seas?
Once more, mind your pudding!' Not so bad a rule; indeed it is the better part of an extremely good one;--and you might reckon it the real rule for a pious Rritannic Island (reverent of God, and contemptuous of the Devil) in times of general Down-break and Spiritual Bankruptcy, when quarrellings of Sovereigns are apt to be mere dog-worryings and Devil's work, not good to interfere in.
"In this manner, Walpole, by solid John-Bull faculty (and methods of his own), had balanced the Parliamentary swaggings and clashings, for a great while; and England had jumbled whither it could, always in a stupid, but also in a peaceable way.