The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.