I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil

I beg to submit that it is the first.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

To rely on a train in Blair's Britain is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.