He never forgot a face that he had once seen.

Nay, in the towns in which he wished to establish an interest, he remembered, not only the voters, but their families.
His opponents were confounded by the strength of his memory and the affability of his deportment, and owned, that it was impossible to contend against a great man who called the shoemaker by his Christian name, who was sure that the butcher's daughter must be growing a fine girl, and who was anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched.

By such arts as these he made himself so popular that his journeys to the Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions resembled royal progresses.

The bells of every parish through which he passed were rung, and flowers were strewed along the road.

It was commonly believed that, in the course of his life, he expended on his parliamentary interest not less than eighty thousand pounds, a sum which, when compared with the value of estates, must be considered as equivalent to more than three hundred thousand pounds in our time.
But the chief service which Wharton rendered to the Whig party was that of bringing in recruits from the young aristocracy.