Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. Reply to a taunt by Daniel O'Connell

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

The right honourable gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] tells us to go back to precedents; with him a great measure is always founded on a small precedent. He traces the steam-engine always back to the tea-kettle. His precedents are generally tea-kettle precedents. Speech in the House of Commons (1845-04-11)

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.