Never take anything for granted.

Her Majesty is not a subject.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.