Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.
Books are the curse of the human race.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.