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

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

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.

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

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.