In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

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

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

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.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

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

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.