There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Be thine own privy counsellor.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.