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

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

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

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

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