Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.