To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

The expected always happens

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.