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

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

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.