There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

All must respect those who respect themselves.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

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 test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.