I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.