You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Never take anything for granted.

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.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.