The Tories are quite welcome to take everything, if they will only leave me my pen and my books, a warm fireside, and you chattering beside it.

This sort of philosophy, an odd kind of cross between Stoicism and Epicureanism, I have learned, where most people unlearn all their philosophy, in crowded senates and fine drawing-rooms.
But time flies, and Grant's dinner will be waiting.

He keeps open house for us during this fight.
Ever yours T.B.M.
London: July 22, 1833.
My dear Father,--We are still very anxious here.

The Lords, though they have passed the Irish Church Bill through its first stage, will very probably mutilate it in Committee.

It will then be for the Ministers to decide whether they can with honour keep their places.