A larger fortune I never desired.
I am not fond of money, or anxious about it.

But, though every day makes me less and less eager for wealth, every day shows me more and more strongly how necessary a competence is to a man who desires to be either great or useful.

At present the plain fact is that I can continue to be a public man only while I can continue in office.

If I left my place in the Government, I must leave my seat in Parliament too.

For I must live; I can live only by my pen; and it is absolutely impossible for any man to write enough to procure him a decent subsistence, and at the same time to take an active part in politics.