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.

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

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

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

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.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.